The Public School Forum of North Carolina
HighScope is announcing our event with Stacey Abrams on Wednesday, May 13 at 10:30am: Elevating Early Childhood Education: The Benefits of Quality Education and How to Make It Accessible to All Children. HighScope is partnering with Detroit Public TV to make this live stream conversation available to the public for free. The event will feature […]
On February 23, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was murdered by two white men while jogging in Brunswick, Georgia. It took the surfacing of a video three months later, and outcries from people nationwide, for the aggressors to be arrested. Join Carolina Public Humanities and Carolina K-12 on Thursday, May 21 for a virtual […]
The Inventors Workshop STEM Project is a week-long summer camp for low-income middle school girls. Students involved in the Inventors Workshop will design Mouse Trap racers, marshmallow catapults, The Great Egg Drop, and build and design 2-Liter Water Bottle rockets. The Inventors Workshop Project will address the need for minority girls gaining exposure to STEM […]
Join educators from across the state for a two-day virtual conference dedicated to exploring the multiple dimensions of educational equity. The NC Conference for Educational Equity will focus on rethinking our practices, disrupting a broken system and developing innovative policies and processes that create equitable outcomes for every student in North Carolina. Throughout the conference, […]
Join CESTEM for a free webinar series: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in STEM Education. Registration is required, CEU’s are available to registered participants! Schedule: Tuesday July 21 10 AM – 12 PM Using Cultural Competency to Develop Relationships Wednesday July 22 10 AM – 12 PM Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: An Overview Friday July 24 10 AM […]
Like today, the 1770s saw its fair share of protests in the name of freedom. On March 5, 1770, an event to be remembered as the Boston Massacre, men in uniform shot and killed an unarmed black man named Crispus Attucks. And also similar to current events, those soldiers got away with it, aided by […]
On November 10, 1898, the only coup d’état ever to take place on American soil began with the torching of a black owned newspaper in Wilmington, North Carolina, and ended with white supremacists overthrowing the local government. The coup was the culmination of a white supremacy and propaganda campaign waged all across the state, designed […]
#GoOpenNC is the Open Education Resources initiative in North Carolina, and it’s also the name of the platform where NC educators can become part of the OER community of practice as they find, develop, and share standards aligned instructional and professional learning materials. The #GoOpenNC platform has the ability to design collaborative spaces called “Hubs” […]
More than a century after she began her journalistic work, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. To celebrate the life and work of of this pioneering Black journalist, advocate and educator, the Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition (OCCRC), in partnership with others including Carolina K-12, is hosting a series of […]